ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND VERTICAL ALIGNMENT SPENCE

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Essential Skills

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Define Essential

Breaking Down the Essentials

Find the Essentials

What is Essential?

Essential

adj. absolutely necessary; extremely important. synonyms crucial, necessary, requisite, key vital

Define Essential SKills

Essential Skills

• Expectations that are necessary for success in the current grade

• Expectations that establish requiste knowldge for future grade levels

• Expectations that build skills and knowledge that support real-world connections

Determine whats essential

Step

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Review the Standards

Essential does not mean Readiness! There are essential skills that are Supporting Standards. If students lack conceptual understanding they can't apply thier knoweldge! What conceptual knowledge is necessary for studnets to be successful?

Breaking Down the Essentials

Prior Learning

Skill

Prior Learning

Supporting Standards

Prior Learning

Skill

Prior Learning

Grade level Readiness standard

Prior Learning

Skill

Supporting Standard

Prior Learning

Prior Learning

Skill

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STEP

02

Look at YOUr Resources

Allow these documents to guide your thinking with these guiding questions:

TEKS by Module

• Which TEKS are constantly reccurring througout the curriculum?

• Which TEKS algin with the Approaches and Meets categories of the PLDs ? How do these connect with how the standards are addressed in the curriculum?

• How does this impact student learning in the upcoming grade level? Which skills are students struggling with now and which previous standards does this connect to?

Performance Level Descriptors

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STEP

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Identify YOur Essential Skills

Based on what we learned in step 2, which skills would you consider to be essential?

3 KEY QUESTIONS

WHAT PRIOR KNOWEDGE DID THEY GAIN FROM THE PREVIOUS GRADE LEVEL?

WHAT ARE STUDENTS EXPECTED TO KNOW?

IS THERE A LEARNING GAP IN SKILL? DOK? FLUENCY?

Where is this Taking US?

Let's dig into current learning!

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TEKS BY MODULE

This document outlines the TEKS for each part of the lesson: the fluencies, the application problem and the concept development. It highlights how often a skill will be covered and when it cycles through the curriculum.

PLDs are statements that describe the specific knowledge and skills students typically demonstrate at each performance level: Masters Grade Level, Meets Grade Level, Approaches Grade Level, and Did Not Meet Grade Level.

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Field Guide

Field Guides help teachers and PLCs plan meaningful instruction that focuses on what matters most – what students need to know, how that translates to instruction and assessment, common errors and misconceptions, key academic vocabulary, and how the standards build over time – all in one place!

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